The Tell-Tale Heart: Short Story
A Classics, Horror, School book. Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aull-. Confieso que lo mat! Levanten esos tablones! Ah ah! Donde est latiendo...
Having killed in a fit of passion, an unnamed narrator quickly hides the victim’s body only to be haunted by the victim’s relentless heartbeat.A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief --oh, no! --it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart No os he dicho ya que lo que tomabais por locura no es sino un refinamiento de los sentidos? Edgar Allan Poe, El Corazn Delator
That might be the creepiest, most grotesquely fascinating thing I've ever read.The juxtaposition of the narrator's concept of self and his actions was really well done. "I'm not crazy, not at all, I'm perfectly logical and unfeeling in my murder of this poor old man. See, I even dismembered him and caught all the blood in a tub! Would... Published in 1850, Edgar Allan Poes The Tell-Tale Heart is one of the best known and most memorable short stories ever written. Since there are dozens of commentaries and reviews here and elsewhere on the internet, in the spirit of freshness, I will take a particular focus: obsession with an eye or eyes and compare Poes tale with a... I'm a fan of classics and horror, and if you are too then you need to read this. A tale of macabre and suspense delivers a squeeze to your heart in very few pages. A man convinced of his own sanity, an "evil eye" and the sound of a heart beating; a low, dull, quick sound-much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton, I...
